Manuscript·34 CDF art. 142-2·1953

Enkomi-Alasia, 7th season of excavations, 1953Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 7 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 142-2 (Enkomi-Alasia, 7th season of excavations, 1953), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 142-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 2Scan 7 of 71

(53) 5Fragment of tablet in baked claySounding 20
with on one side, about 19 lineson surface
closely spaced Cypro-Minoan signs,
on the other side two columns of
text divided by horizontal lines into 6(?)
sections. (Temp. exp.)
l. 120, w. 85, th. 30 mm.
Worn.
(53) 6Ball in baked clay with inscriptionPt 213
in Cypro-Minoan characters.N Ta
diam. 20 mm. (7 signs) 0m10 belowat 0m80
1st floor, in undisturbed ground,
(53) 7Weight in the form of an ovoid pebble, baseN Ta
flattened, diam. 70 and 55 m/m, th. 38 mm.pt. 215 at 0m70
weighing: 270 gr 8at 0m40 from pt.
230 on balk.
1st floor.
(53) 8Frag. of cylinder in lapis lazuli withN Ta
signs Cypro-Min. (temp. exp.)Pt 197, N I at 0,70
probably found in spoil of area N. 1948spoil
(53) 9Stone axe grey, l. 102, w. 49 m/mPt. 51
0,75
(53) 10Seal with engraved base (drawing) in grey steatiteSond. 13 EW
20 x 16 x 12 (temp. exp.)pt. 233
at 0,40

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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